Nava Zarnagar, Law Office

Nava Zarnagar, Law Office is a leading law firm specializing in criminal law, in felony and first-class felony cases. The firm was founded almost a decade ago by Adv. Nava Zarnagar, who has many years of experience as a police officer and prosecutor, in the Be’er-Sheva and Tel Aviv Criminal Prosecution Departments, on behalf of the Israel Police.

Adv. Zarnagar’s experience, which includes representing the State of Israel in the magistrate and district courts in the South District as well as the Tel Aviv District and the deep knowledge that she accumulated in this field, create the firm’s unique strength in representing its clients, and a significant added value for her clients.

The firm represents its clients, most of whom are first-time offenders, including doctors, nurses, teachers, high-tech industry workers, and public officials, who became involved in extreme cases of felonies and capital felonies, including offences of manslaughter, violence, drugs and sexual offences. Adv. Zarnagar’s vast experience, both as a municipal prosecutor on behalf of the City of Ra’anana and as a police officer and prosecutor, provides her with insights into the other side of the trench.

Her professional experience in the police, which started in 2009, is part of her 16 years of experience in criminal law, which includes 8 years as a defense attorney.
Over the course of her professional career, Adv. Zarnagar has accompanied numerous agent operations, and acquired extensive familiarity with the police’s technologies, methods and systems, whether confidential or publicly known.

The firm cooperates with leading experts in their respective fields in complex criminal cases, including private investigators, former senior forensic officers, computer experts, video experts, sound experts, and dangerousness assessors, among others, who assist in conducting a meticulous review of all of the evidence and findings that were obtained from the police or the prosecution, and in filing rebuttal reports in the framework of the case management.

The firm offers clients first-class legal services for all aspects of criminal law. Since its establishment, the firm’s team has been following its core values of professional excellence, reliability, integrity and devotion, providing optimal legal representation to its clients, and prioritizing their interests at all times.
Adv. Zarnagar fights determinedly for her clients’ rights, tailoring a strong defense and leading a strategy adapted for each and every case that is entrusted to her, while applying creative and innovative thinking, transparently, thoroughly and sensitively, with a meticulous review of all of the facts, witnesses and evidence, and analyzing the investigation materials, while mitigating damages.

All of the firm’s clients are personally represented by Adv. Zarnagar, with professional and devoted assistance, starting from the summoning to a police questioning, through the search or arrest and up to decision concerning the hearing, indictment or case dismissal.

In case an indictment is filed, Adv. Zarnagar accompanies her clients vis-à-vis the prosecution department or the District Attorney’s Office until the completion of the case.

Adv. Nava Zarnagar – Founder and Owner

Adv. Zarnagar served as a judge in the Central District Disciplinary Court of the Israel Bar Association, and served as V. Chairperson of the National Criminal Law Forum and co-Chairperson of the Ra’anana Contact Committee of the Israel Bar Association. In the framework of these roles, she received numerous accolades and letters of appreciation.
In 2016, she received the “Protection Edge” campaign medal, in accordance with the decision of the Israeli government, in light of her significant contribution to the defense of the State of Israel.

Adv. Zarnagar, who is renowned as an authority in her field, has accumulated a vast reputation in her areas of practice, and has been appearing frequently in the traditional and digital media as an expert on criminal law. Among other appearances, she appeared on Channel 13 (in the show “HaKol Kalul”), in News 13, in the newspapers Globes and Yisrael Hayom, N12 Mako, Yediot Aharonot, TheMarker, Ynet and the LaIsha magazine, and in the framework of the Yom HaAtzma’ut project “2022 Successful Businesswomen”.

In addition, Adv. Zarnagar is often invited to lecture in the Israel Bar Association’s conferences and in panels with top criminal lawyers, including the “Extradited” panel of the Israel Bar Association’s conference the “Communication in Crime” panel where she represented the bar, and the criminal law panel “leaks from investigation against the ability to control the law enforcement system” of the Israel Bar Association.
Furthermore, Adv. Zarnagar is entrusted with organizing seminars and trainings in the field of criminal law in the framework of her role as chair of the Israel Bar Association’s National Criminal Forum, including legal issues pertaining to the cross-examination of complainants of sexual offences in the courts; sensitive intel and considerations for exposure thereof; guidelines for raw evidence; the art of litigation and the strategy of managing a criminal case; DNA and its use in forensics; denial of responsibility by suspect as a consideration in the recommendation to release from custody and more.